Luís Costa

Luís Costa (Nodar, Portugal, 1968) is a sound art curator and organizer, experimental documentary filmmaker, sound recordist and archiver. He is a founding member and currently the president of Binaural / Nodar, an organization that since 2006 manage Nodar Rural Art Lav, a space devoted to media arts in rural context located in a Portuguese mountainous area. Having a long standing interest in the new media arts (since 1991), Luís Costa has been a regular collaborator of contemporary arts and rural development magazines ([up]arte, Revista Aldeia, Boa União etc.).

Luis Costa curated the following exhibitions connected with the creative work hosted at Nodar Rural Art Lab:

- Collective Sound Art Exhibition “Fronte[i]ras 07” (Rural Museum of Carvalhais – São Pedro do Sul, PT, Sala X at Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra, ES – October 07 / January 08),
- Collective Sound Art Exhibition “Nodar: Visions of Sound, Space and People” (Grão Vasco Museum – Viseu, PT – July/August 08),
• “Four Sound Installations” (Viriato Theatre – Viseu, PT – November / December 08)
• “Mosses and Liquens” – 6 Estonian Contemporary Artists (Santa Clara Gallery – Coimbra, PT – March / May 09)
• Paivascapes #1 – Retrospective Collective exhibition of 15 sound and video site-specific works connected with the Paiva river in Portugal (Municipal Museum of Vila Nova de Paiva, Rural Museum of Pendilhe, Ermida do Paiva, Municipal Museum of Arouca, PT – March / May 2011).

Since 2008 he coordinates “Aldeias Sonoras” (“Sound Villages”) project, an educational program that consists in the sound mapping of Portuguese rural areas with the participation of primary and secondary school students. With this project it was already possible to map sounds from more than 200 rural locations in Portugal.

Luis Costa is also the coordinator of the Sound Archive of Aldeias de Magaio, an holistic archive of oral tradition, field recordings and ethnomusicology, all connected with the rural villages of Aldeias de Magaio in Portugal.

In 2011 he directed “Where is the source of my Paiva?”, an experimental sound/video documentary about the Paiva river, that was presented during Paivascapes #1 Festival. In the same year, he published on Edições Nodar a field recordings CD along with Jez riley French and Joana Silva, entitled “Sonata for Clarinet & Nodar” and co-edited the retrospective catalogue and double CD “Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal”.

Contacto:

luis @ binauralmedia.org